
Access climate change simulations from regional climate models and time-slice experiments. Data are useful for regional analyses, impacts studies, and further downscaling.
Data from the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) are available through the Earth System Grid. The NARCCAP produces high-resolution climate change simulations for investigating uncertainties in regional scale projections of future climate and generates climate change scenarios for use in impacts research.
NARCCAP modelers have run six regional climate models (RCMs) driven by four atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) over a domain covering the contiguous United States and most of Canada. The models used the SRES A2 emissions scenario for the 21st century, covering the period 2041–2070. Simulations with these models were also produced for the historical period (1971–2000).